SPORTS
Lady Indians picking it up
The Nocona Lady Indian softball team played at a tournament in Lindsay last week as they continue to improve every game.
The Lady Indians went 1-3 during three days of games.
Nocona first played Era on Thursday. The Lady Hornets scored five combined runs in the first two innings to take the lead. The Lady Indians scored in the third inning when Kycelynn Contreras drove in Jessica Dingler, but it was not enough to make up the difference.
Era would score two more runs in the fourth inning where the game would be stopped, the Lady Hornets winning 7-1.
Friday would prove even tougher as Nocona faced the tournament hosts. The Lady Knights scored three runs or more in all three innings, exploding for 10 runs in the third and final inning.
The Lady Indians scored three runs in the second inning to cut the lead to 7-3, thanks to RBIS from Makenna Nobile and Koryahna Ramsey. Unfortunately, the final inning got ugly and Lindsay would win 17-3.
Heading into Saturday, the Nocona team knew it could play better. The Lady Indians first played Centerville. The Lady Indians hung nine runs on the Lady Tigers to start the game, with RBIs coming from five different players.
Centerville bounced back as Nocona struggled to score the next two innings. The Lady Tigers would score five runs in the second inning and two in the third, cutting the score to 9-7. Fortunately, the game was called after that and the Lady Indians would get the win.
Nocona finished the tournament playing Bridgeport. The score was tied at 4-4 after two innings, but the Lady Blues would scored three runs in the third inning to take the lead.
The Lady Indians would score one run in the fourth in response, but Bridgeport would score two more runs before the game was called after four innings, the Lady Blues winning 9-5.
Jenna McBride led the team with two RBIs and three other girls drove in at least one run.
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Nocona got its new press box into place this week at Jack Crane Stadium. The old press box, which was in place for more than 60 years, was taken out in early June and moved to Indian Valley Raceway. The new press box was by the Southern Bleacher Company out of Graham. Athletic Director Black Crutsinger said they looked at a lot of press boxes and decided they liked the one at Lindsay High School and went with that model. Sean Hutson operated the crane from the Hurd Crane Service that put the press box up for Nocona.
Sunset native Cason Richey (right) and his team roping partner Beldon Cox from Weatherford repeated as the International Finals Youth Rodeo champions last weekend at Shawnee, OK. Richey and Cox won the previous year and were able to complete the repeat by catching three steers in a combined time of 16.6 seconds. Richey is expected to compete attend Texas Tech University this fall and compete on the rodeo team.
The Chisholm Trail Youth Rodeo had its awards ceremony this week, giving out plaques and buckles to the top competitors throughout the summer season.
There were four age categories with five events to compete in for the young athletes.
Along with the best results in each event, at the end the overall best cowboy and cowgirl in each age division was awarded as well.
The lead line division, in which an adult helps the young competitors, saw Rylee Stewart win the first in poles, barrel racing and mystery event on her way to win top cowgirl.
Hattie Snow got the fastest time in the flags event and Lany Shupak got the fastest goat time. Riggin Bishop got named the top cowboy in the division.
In the eight-and-under division, Whitley Goins won the top cowgirl and Trell Carpenter won top cowboy. Goins got the fastest times in barrel racing, flags and mystery event. Carpenter got the fastest time in poles and goats.
In the 9-12 age division, Sage Keck won the top cowgirl while Chisum Carpenter won the top cowboy. Keck got the fastest times in four of the five divisions. Only Layna Taylor getting the fastest goat time prevented her from winning in a clean sweep.
In the 13-18 age division, Tess Egenbacher won the top overall cowgirl award.
Kiley McCracken won both the barrel racing and flags event. Emma Strahan won the poles and mystery event. Hadlee Bryan won the goats event.
There was no top overall cowboy in the age division.
To see the times for the winners of each event in all four age categories along with pictures of all of the top cowboys and cowgirls, pick up a copy of the weekend edition of the Bowie News.
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